Books: Candido & the Capitalists

"Who is B. Traven?" has been one of the tantalizing literary puzzles of
the last decade. Even students dedicated to unraveling the symbolism of
James Joyce's Finnegans Wake will lift their noses and loose an excited
bay if Traven's name is drawn across the conversation. And if, as now
seems pretty certain (TIME, Aug. 16, 1948), B. Traven is the pen name
of Chicago-born Berick Traven Torsvan Torsvan, 58, a shy recluse who
has lived in Mexico since 1913...